Where: Kobe University (Kobe, Japan)
When: 5-7 November 2008
Website: http://www.kobe-u.ac.jp/en/
Contact: Akihisa Setoguchi (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka City University)
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The theme of the workshop, "Biology Studies in East Asia," captures the momentum of ongoing and future scholarship. In East Asia, historical and sociological studies of biology have been around for a long time. However, this is not well known among Western scholars. Recently, philosophers of biology have grown in numbers in Japan and new topics such as neuroethics have become important. We would like to show the current status of biology studies and discuss future directions of historical, sociological, and philosophical studies of biology.
The purposes of this workshop are to (1) build a network of scholars of biology studies in East Asia and (2) foster interactions between them and the current ISHPSSB members. It will benefit both East Asian scholars and Western counterparts. Communication between participants from each East Asian country will be mutually encouraging and helpful for making biology studies more active in this region. At the same time, for participants from Western countries, this will provide a good opportunity to get to know what is going on with East Asian biology studies. If this workshop is successful, it will eventually contribute to ISHPSSB by raising the Society's international profile, which can be potentially measured by the participation of East Asian scholars in future ISHPSSB meetings, including the upcoming bi-annual meeting in Brisbane, 2009.